- Practical goal focus
- Collaborative style
- Money and life strain
About Renee
Renee Kerns is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She centers care on real-life challenges like work strain, caregiving stress, and the life shifts young adults face. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making change feel manageable day to day.
Renee works with people dealing with relationship and family conflict, parenting pressures, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse. Money and financial issues appear among her focus areas, so she can help clients talk through how finances affect mood and choices. She also supports those coping with cancer, blended family issues, and workplace problems.
Her counseling draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s goals and perspective. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons and motivation for change. Solution-focused work helps keep sessions practical and oriented toward steps that fit a client’s life.
Renee has 14 years of experience as an LCMHC in North Carolina. That background informs a steady, experience-based approach rather than quick fixes. Sessions are aimed at building resilience, clearer communication, and small, sustainable changes.
People seeking help for anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, or issues around forgiveness and control may find sessions useful for sorting priorities and planning next steps. The work is collaborative - she listens, reflects what matters, and helps shape concrete next actions.
How her approaches shape online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and values their perspective first. It’s about listening, reflecting, and helping clients decide what matters most to them, which can help when sorting feelings about work, family, and money.Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find personal reasons to change. It works well for decisions about career moves, financial habits, or making changes after a loss. The therapist asks questions that pull out the client’s own goals and strengths.
Solution-focused therapy keeps sessions practical and goal-driven. It emphasizes small, doable steps and tracks progress from session to session, which can be helpful when juggling busy schedules or tackling a specific problem like communication or coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has worked before, then tailor methods to fit those needs in a collaborative way.
Confirm the current online session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and let people work on goals without adding travel time. These practical benefits often help people fit therapy into everyday life.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Renee commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and family problems, parenting pressures, trauma and abuse, and related issues such as ADHD and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is person-centered and collaborative, using motivational interviewing to build motivation and solution-focused techniques to create practical, short-term steps.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 14 years of clinical experience as a licensed counselor working with a range of life stressors and transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LCMHC licensed in North Carolina and practices with that credential in the state.
Can I see her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Confirm current session formats before booking to be sure what options are available for scheduling and meeting.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.